The frit thus prepared is then placed in the melting-pots and gradually heated.
There have been brought from Egypt a few rare objects carved out of a blue frit (probably similar to that used in the preparation of glazes), for which a very early date has been claimed.
The fritting-pans, to judge from some large fragments of frit that turned up, were shallow bowls some ten inches across.
This had indeed, before the end of the previous century, been in a measure accomplished in France by means of a soft paste, in the composition of which a glass-like frit played an important part.
In the composition of this fritthere enters not only soda and the white pebbles from the Tecino, but a considerable amount of gromma or tartar, a substance containing potash, and perhaps lime also.
It will be noted that in both cases a preliminary frit was prepared, although the term ammonitrum, a word of Greek origin, is applied to this frit in the latter case only.
The shape and size of the crucibles in which the frit was subsequently melted may be inferred from some masses of glass found in the rubbish.
They are filled with the frit in the evening, and for the whole night a fire of dried logs is kept burning.
Only Mr. Reddin came and frit the birds and made the water muddy.
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
I was a good big lad then, and, my, wasn’t I frit when I see the keeper coming with his dog.
But they are soon back agen, and I’m thatfrit when I hears ’em, I can’t sleep.
The clear portions of this frit were powdered and washed with boiling water, and the working clay was compounded by adding to such powdered frit a small quantity of chalky clay or marl and sometimes pure chalk as well.
The most frequent item in the scheme of decoration was a roundel moulded of a sandy frit coated with blue or grey slip, upon which is a cream-coloured rosette (fig.
Lapis-lazuli, for instance, was replaced by blue frit made with an admixture of silicate of copper, and this was reduced to an impalpable powder.
Defn: The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.
Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.
That mixture is subjected to an incipient pasty fusion in a furnace, where it is stirred about to blend the materials well; and thus a very white spongy frit is obtained.
The fritis now dried and mixed with 12 ounces of fine white lead, and the mixture is to be levigated and elutriated with a little distilled water.
After 8 or 10 hours the vitrification has made such progress, and the blocks first introduced are so far melted down, that another charge of frit can be thrown in, and thus the pot is fed with frit till the proper quantity is used.
In about 16 hours the vitrification of the frit has taken place, and a considerable quantity, amounting often to the cwt.
When the fusion is complete, the vitreous matter is to be poured into clear water, and the frit is then dried, and melted anew.
The mixture is to be afterwards poured into a basin of hot water, and treated with dilute nitric acid till it ceases to effervesce; and then the frit is to be washed till the water comes off tasteless.
But a frit should not be rejected hastily because it may be somewhat discoloured, since this may depend on two causes; either on some metallic oxides, or on fuliginous particles proceeding from vegetable or animal substances.
It is this kind of frit which serves as a radical to almost every enamel; and by varying the proportions of the ingredient, more fusible, more opaque, or whiter enamels are obtained.
This is afterwards poured into a basin of hot water, and treated with dilute nitric acid till it ceases to effervesce; when the frit is to be washed till the water comes off tasteless.
The beads are nearly all of known Neolithic types; one form is noticeable, a blue frit cylinder with gold caps at the ends.
The third frit is pulverized, five drachms of niter added, and then melted for the last time, when a clean, beautiful white crystal mass results.
And how long before the frit will be entirely melted?
Returning to the Inferno, Cicerone led the way to a pot which was being filled with fritfrom one of the little covered cars that he had pointed out in the mixing-room.
For the old Sevres soft porcelain, the frit was crushed, cleared of salts, and ground in water.
Among the Egyptians and Assyrians enamelling was used more frequently than glazing, and their works are consequently a kind of faience, consisting of a loose frit or body, to which an enamel adheres after only a slight fusion.
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